Three Peacekeeper Employees Among Those Ticketed For Violating Protocols

Three employees of the Kahnawake Peacekeepers were among the five people who were ticketed eight days ago for being at a private gathering in the community. The fines were for $1541 dollars each.

Peacekeeper Chief Dwayne Zacharie says that it has now become an issue of human resources. “As far as the enforcement goes, that’s been taken care of. That’s been done,” Zacharie said. “As far as human resources issues go, that is confidential. But what I can say is that employees who were involved are being looked at right now to face supplemental discipline for their involvement.”

Zacharie says he has not officially spoken to all three yet. “Every case has its own set of circumstances and they all have to be looked at closely,” he said. “Discipline should be fair and commensurate with the act that they committed. So it will all be looked at. We want to be fair as well. So any kind of discipline, like in our administration manual, it can go from a verbal reprimand all the way up to and including termination. Those are all things that are possible disciplines.”

However, Zacharie says that step is unlikely. “I don’t see this as meeting the threshold for termination.”